Gavin Newsom visits San Quentin State Prison — for an interview with Jon Stewart
.JPG "California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference on Oct. 6, 2022 in San Francisco.")
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday visited San Quentin State Prison for a one-on-one interview with comedian and political commentator Jon Stewart.
According to Newsom’s spokesperson Izzy Gardon, the governor sat down with Stewart to discuss “corrections, rehabilitation, and the Governor’s decades-long work strengthening public safety in California’s communities.”
In June 2019, Newsom signed an executive order placing a moratorium on the death penalty in California. He called the death penalty “ineffective, irreversible and immoral.” State officials are now in the process of working to transfer San Quentin’s nearly 700 death row inmates to other state prisons.
Stewart hosts a current affairs series on Apple TV called “The Problem with Jon Stewart.” The series premiered in September 2021.
Gardon said the episode featuring Newsom is expected to air in late March.
The interview comes less than two weeks after the L.A. Times reported that a third of the 123 prisoners Newsom has granted commutations or reductions of sentences still remain behind bars.